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Concerning Narrative Verse
Walton, Eda Lou | July 17, 1929 issue

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The article presents information about two books related to narrative verse. One of the book under discussion is titled The Fate of the Jury, written by Edgar Lee Masters. The other book under discussion is titled Pheidias, written by John Galen Howard. After a period during which a long poem was anathema to any publisher, one have recently, here in America, come upon a millennium for writers of stories in verse. The turn toward story in verse is, indeed, not a turn toward verse at all. It is merely the universal and popular inclination toward a good tale, toward action in any form, not even widely divorced from the interest in the detective story.

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BOOKS; NOVELS in verse; FATE of the Jury, The (Book); PHEIDIAS (Book); FICTION; UNITED States
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